Donor characteristics do not influence transfusion-related acute lung injury incidence in a secondary analysis of two case-control studies

Objective

To investigate the relation between donor characteristics and TRALI incidence.

中国人口婚姻挤压状况及对生育保健的挑战

目的分析中国1985-1999年的婚姻挤压方向、程度及变化趋势，为生育保健策略的制定提供依据。方法利用中国2000年第五次人口普查资料，计算男女终身不婚率及婚姻挤压指数。结果中国人口在19851999年15年间一直呈现为男性婚姻挤压，且挤压程度从1991年开始有所升高。结论应重视不能成婚的男性这一弱势群体，开展可行、有效的男性保健；同时，应针对女性开展防范性暴力的健康教育。     

Le positionnement assis au fauteuil,comment adapter la méthodologie anglo-saxonne à la pratique française en pédiatrie ?

An overview on children's wheelchair positioning in France. A French team working in a special center has made a clinical approach and gives their conclusions.     

Malaria in school‐age children in Africa: an increasingly important challenge

School‐age children have attracted relatively little attention as a group in need of special measures to protect them against malaria. However, increasing success in lowering the level of malaria transmission in many previously highly endemic areas will result in children acquiring immunity to malaria later in life than has been the case in the past. Thus, it can be anticipated that in the coming years there will be an increase in the incidence of both uncomplicated and severe malaria in school‐age children in many previously highly endemic areas. In this review, which focuses primarily on Africa, recent data on the prevalence of malaria parasitaemia and on the incidence of clinical malaria in African school‐age children are presented and evidence that malaria adversely effects school performance is reviewed. Long‐lasting insecticide treated bednets (LLIN) are an effective method of malaria control but several studies have shown that school‐age children use LLINs less frequently than other population groups. Antimalarial drugs are being used in different ways to control malaria in school‐age children including screening and treatment and intermittent preventive treatment. Some studies of chemoprevention in school‐age children have shown reductions in anaemia and improved school performance but this has not been the case in all trials and more research is needed to identify the situations in which chemoprevention is likely to be most effective and, in these situations, which type of intervention should be used. In the longer term, malaria vaccines may have an important role in protecting this important section of the community from malaria. Regardless of the control approach selected, it is important this is incorporated into the overall programme of measures being undertaken to enhance the health of African school‐age children.